There has been a lot of questions and criticisms on President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo regarding his neutrality during the 2024 presidential race. The same thing goes to the ministers, state apparatus, military and the police. Most recently, Ganjar Pranowo, a presidential candidate from a coalition led by the ruling party PDIP, made a suggestion to the ministers who are now competing in 2024 race, including his own running mate Mahfud MD and his rival Prabowo Subianto, to resign from the cabinet to avoid conflict of interest. Jokowi himself should have taken a campaign leave because his son is in the race.

In the past, most people believe that major business groups put their eggs in all available baskets to mitigate risks. Looks like, however, things have changed. While it is not a secret of involvement of Garibaldi ‘Boy’ Thohir in presidential elections, the gathering attended by president candidate Prabowo Subianto last night, at least based on Boy’s claim, conglomerates reportedly controlling one-third of Indonesian economy declared support for Prabowo-Gibran.

Megawati Soekarnoputri, the matriarch of the ruling party PDIP, was present in the mass campaign of Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD held in Bandung, West Java on Sunday (Jan. 21). Megawati’s presence is worth highlighting because this is perhaps the first time for her to attend Ganjar-Mahfud’s public campaign.

General Agus Subiyanto instituted the third round of job rotation during his term as the Military Commander (Panglima TNI). Around 114 high-ranking military officers were affected in this rotation, including the commander of the National Military Police (Danpuspom TNI).

Tempo reported that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo made a request for a meeting with Megawati Soekarnoputri, the matriarch of the ruling party PDIP. If the report is true, will Megawati accept Jokowi’s request? After all of these tensions and political breakup, will...

Four pollsters recently released the result of their respective electability survey in which all of them found that Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka was leading the race by a big margin. However, these pollsters found a different result on who will compete head-to-head against Prabowo-Gibran in the election runoff. Is it Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD or Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar? Can we trust these pollsters?

This article is part of a speech from Isabel Schnabel, member of the executive board of European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main back in March 2022 titled ‘A new age of energy inflation: climateflation, fossilflation and greenflation. We’re interested in the speech because Mahfud MD, vice president candidate for Ganjar Pranowo, refused to answer a ‘trivial’ question from Gibran Rakabuming Raka, running mate of Prabowo Subianto, in last night’s second vice president debate. 

“Increasingly practicing low-class (kampungan) politics…As if the new capital city is his own statue,” one middle ranking government officer at ministry of public works and housing said about construction of IKN Nusantara in Penajam Paser Utara regency, East Kalimantan province. 

President candidate Prabowo Subianto believes that Indonesian can have a food security without necessarily importing foodstuffs. Prabowo, through his nephew Budisatrio Djiwandono, insists to continue the food estate program, deemed a big failure by many. Seriously?